More signs that Texas Governor Rick Perry has displaced Mitt Romney as the 2012 GOP front-runner for the presidential nomination comes from a new CNN – ORC poll. Perry tops the list of candidates with 27% of Republicans and those Independents who lean Republican. Romney is second with just 14%, followed by Sarah Palin with 10%, Michele Bachmann and Rudy Guiliani tied with 9% each, and another tie between Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul at 6% each. Meanwhile, the Far Left is making hay of a speech Perry gave in Ottumwa, Iowa, where he repeated his assertion from his book, ′Fed Up′, that Social Security is a ′monstrous lie′ to young people. Perry describes the entitlement program as a Ponzi scheme.

Remarks like this, or his others on climate change and the Federal Reserve have spawned hit pieces such as one from Politico today asking ′Is Rick Perry Dumb?′ The common joke is that he is like President Bush without the brains. While Rick Perry may not be steeped in the philosophical nuances of the Conservative movement, or Austrian economics, he does know what he needs to know. The Politico article by Jonathan Martin does cite a phone conversation with Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal who had written an article for a business magazine about changes in tax policies to encourage businesses. Jindal recalled or Perry ″He knew the nuances of what we had done and called to congratulate me but also to see what Texas could do to be competitive with us.″

Now, the Far-Left Media is going to attack any GOP candidate, claiming that whoever is running pales in comparison to highly educated Barack Obama. For all the good his Harvard law degree has done Obama, such wisdom has yet to translate to any benefits for America. Similar to George Bush, Rick Perry is a pilot, joining the Air Force after graduating from Texas A&M. Perry flew C-130s, and some have likened his administrative style to that of a pilot. He has a flight plan and follows that plan. Which is more than one can say about Obama, who never seems to have any plan.

While Rick Perry may not have the private sector experience that Mitt Romney has, he certainly has the managerial background needed to be a chief executive. Given some aspects of Romney′s business practices, one could say that Perry has an advantage over Romney. Another difference between Perry and Obama is the natural instinct to understand and appreciate American common sense. While Obama surrounds himself with academics and then generally ignores them, Perry builds a staff that can execute the plan and follow through.

So it is no wonder that more scrutiny is being made on Texas Governor Rick Perry who now tops the 2012 GOP candidate list in a the new CNN – ORC poll. This makes three polls in just the past week showing Perry leading Mitt Romney and the rest of the pack by double digits. While it is still early, the momentum is now with Rick Perry. September provides three televised debates between the candidates and gives Perry an opportunity to further distinguish himself from the others. The question that needs to be asked is not ′Is Rick Perry Dumb?′ but do the Ivy League, white-shoe-club elites from Harvard, Yale and Princeton have their heads stuffed too far up their own butts to understand reality? Perry is right when he calls Social Security a ′monstrous lie′ and a Ponzi scheme. If a Harvard lawyer like Obama cannot figure that one out, then he is the dumb one, not Perry.

they don’t realize it, as is clear from Michelle Malkin’s rant against egghead intellectuals and smarty pants college boys with all their book-learnin’ and educashamashion. Decent honest hardworking job creating Republicans are graduates of the school of hard knocks. They got their degrees in the Real World, not them ivory towers who get fat off the teat of the public while stuffin’ their heads with all kinds of theories and so-called-facts, when we know it’s all just a bunch ‘ahooey anyhow.

I mean, as Malkin said, just look at what all them fancy Harvard elites got us– all them smarts and they STILL haven’t solved all the problems of 30 years of GOP-lead economic rot yet!

Besides, Obama has had some gaffes (well, we think he did anyway), so he’s just as dumb as a guy with this truly abysmal transcript.

Which sits perfectly well with the GOP.

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Micky Says:
August 29th, 2011 at 5:11 pm

You know what shtheads ?

You should make up your mind whos the real meat of society.
Your stuck up elitist bookworms you worship or the blue collar middle class whos ass you kiss for votes.
Its very simple.
Barck, the Constitutional lawyer pi$$es on the document out of complete ignorance and with years of college cant wipe his ass without breaking a leg.
What good is edumacation if your morals are up your ass ?

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Micky Says:
August 29th, 2011 at 5:14 pm

“You do realize that education and intelligence is a good thing?”

Then why do liberals offer so many useless courses in todays universities ?

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buzzbee Says:
August 29th, 2011 at 5:15 pm

When has Obama been immoral?

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Ron Says:
August 29th, 2011 at 5:23 pm

“You do realize that education and intelligence is a good thing?”

What is your point? Education and intelligence have absolutely nothing to do with one another…

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Ron Says:
August 29th, 2011 at 5:31 pm

I still think Donald Trump is a nincompoop for not making a run. I like his attitude and his ideas. “Bill the Arab League for asking us to join the attack on Libya. Bill the Chinese for a sum of money above and beyond what we owe them for the priceless technology they stole when we raided bin laden’s compound wiping out what we owe them.” Great stuff, I just wish someone would do it and he would have been the man. He could have given American’s a sense of nationalism again, something most have forgotten the feeling of! I would go to war for a guy like that!

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buzzbee Says:
August 29th, 2011 at 6:01 pm

People that are intelligent sometimes find that pursuing an education is easier.

That is why I don’t want a plumber as President, but conversely I don’t want the President to fix my plumbing.

And I don’t mean any disrespect to plumbers. I have friends with plumbing companies that have made a fortune.

I don’t know why it seems that many of you view higher education as a “bad” thing.

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buzzbee Says:
August 29th, 2011 at 6:18 pm

The following is from the “winner” of the Iowa Straw Poll and a recent “darling” of the GOP.

“I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians”

“We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. God said, ‘Are you going to start listening to me here?’ Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we’ve got to rein in the spending.”

What hubris and arrogance, to think that God is sending specific political messages to Americans.

I am sure Rick Perry would not ascribe to such nonsense. Would he? He wouldn’t, right?

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Micky Says:
August 29th, 2011 at 8:39 pm

“When has Obama been immoral?”

First of all I was speaking in general of those who are immoral.
Second of all VI didnt say anything about Obama
Third, if you like a list of immoral sht thats come from him thats not a problem.
We shall start with lying…

…?

Ya know, its gettin really hard to have a semi intellectually honest conversation around here seeing as how its either general ignorance woeful obtuseness standing in the way of acknowledging the most basic of truthful realistic elements.
Gotdamn conversation can never go forward without some ridiculously oxymoronic fcking test of wits and grammatical semantic dance getting in the way.
Grow up ass holes.
This president is a failure.
its not about right or left.
If it were about liberals. He failed at that also.
Fcking stupid is fcking stupid…

get it ?

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Micky Says:
August 29th, 2011 at 8:50 pm

“What hubris and arrogance, to think that God is sending specific political messages to Americans.”

You think politicians in general are immune to this crap and only Christians say dramatic passes ?
Half of the dems said global warming will have the effects of a nuclear holocaust with no proof whatsoever !!!!!!!!
Hows THAT FOR ARROGANT HUBRIS ????????????
Obama said he’d make the oceans recede …

okay ?

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buzzbee Says:
August 30th, 2011 at 3:14 am

It is the same as when athletes think God is on “their” side.

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Andy Z Says:
August 30th, 2011 at 4:10 am

@ buzzbee (and ‘Me’, too)

Your basic premise that education and intelligence are related is flawed. Certainly when one looks at the state of nation’s schools and universities.

Many ‘experts’ will tell you that intelligence is formed in an individual during the first three years. Young children mentally engaged by colorful shaped toys, like building blocks, tend to be more astute in later life when it comes to solving problems and being generally curious about the world about them.

Our formal educational institutions have become, for the most part, day-care centers. Someplace to just dump children for 8 hours while the parents work. Between Progressive curriculum agendas and teacher unions protecting bad teachers, public schools are useless in enriching one’s mental capabilities.

Ivy League universities are not much better. The evidence of people achieving success without attending such schools, or any college at all, is growing. Probably why Peter Thiel, founder of Paypal, is paying people $100,000 to drop out of college and start their own businesses. Colleges today are losing their credibility as centers for learning.

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Andy Z Says:
August 30th, 2011 at 4:16 am

For more than a decade, we have seen how home schooled children do far better on entrance exams and other tests. Several spelling bee champs of late have been home schooled.

You cannot argue that the ideal situation is that teaching a child to be curious and inspiring him or her to learn throughout life is the best method.

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Micky Says:
August 30th, 2011 at 4:23 am

“It is the same as when athletes think God is on “their” side.”

Buzz, stop being an idiot.
Whats the point if we dont think God is on our side ?
Some of us are just more dramatic about it.
I like to believe God is on my side because he gave me purpose and I’ve come back from death a couple times.
Are you aware of how many people pray for the most selfless things because they believe God is on their side ?

I swear, the constraints of your mind shrink more as time goes by.

At least the man I voted for doesnt think hes God

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Faye Says:
August 30th, 2011 at 5:23 am

Heard on the radio yesterday Rick Perry’s grades from Texas A&M…All righty Billy Ray…Cough Up those Harvard grades….
LMAO
Who gives a sh**?
Obviously MSM does

Andy–It’s the first 6 years of a child’s life
See Piaget.

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TA Says:
August 30th, 2011 at 5:33 am

“Your basic premise that education and intelligence are related is flawed.”

But you can not deny that one tends to enhance the other?

As to home schooled children, I know few adults who have enough grasp of math, English, history, sciences, languages and the arts to teach more than one or two of these subjects adequately past the grade school level. Your statement about home-schooled children doing better on entrance exams has a major flaw in that it can not account for what is likely a very large number of these kids who never apply for higher education at all.

Thanks, but for now I’d prefer that the generation that will be in charge in my old age stick to Harvard et al.

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buzzbee Says:
August 30th, 2011 at 6:00 am

Why is it that a difference of opinion always devolves into name calling, as if this is a question of right and wrong.

I never think my opinion is the only one and that those that disagree with me must be idiots (or often worse).

Especially in matters of religion. I respect others’ views and belief in such things, even if I have a completely different view.

There is no right and wrong when describing one’s faith, or even lack thereof.

Whether it is a fervent belief in any specific religion, or contrarily, an insistence on atheism, it is still nothing but a personal belief.

I would never try to change a person’s mind on such matters. I don’t have the right.

I simply don’t want any theocracy to be a main component of political decisions.

Others obviously disagree. So be it.

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Ghost of Klo Says:
August 30th, 2011 at 6:28 am

If this man, who is essentially Geo. Bush II, gets elected President of the United States, then my life will be complete, because I will have truly seen it all. The biggest problem with mortality for me is the idea that I will not get to see how the human race will finally turn out, in the end. But if we have a President Perry, I will know for sure the ultimate fate of mankind, that we will, in the end, without a doubt, become extinct only because of our own stupidity.

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Micky Says:
August 30th, 2011 at 7:41 am

“But you can not deny that one tends to enhance the other?”

Thats not the point.
All the data in the world is useless if you cant manage it to fruition.
That requires intelligence which you can have without education.
Any schmuck can be educated. But it takes a wherewithal and work ethic in thought process to be intelligent.
Most of you guys think because you’ve got some sheet of paper saying you remembered a lot of data, its means you’re smart.
Quite the contrary, you’re actually stupid if you believe that and even dumber for assuming everyone else is dumber than you.
This comes from someone who never went to high school, entered college at 16 and left at 18 with an associates science, opened his own business, bought a house, white picket fence.
Not because I was educated, but because I was more intelligent than anything our fcked up government run high school could offer.
And theres millions of kids just like me that you so called intelligent elites have held back and dumbed down for decades.
Being intelligent is not just brain power and accumulation of fact.
Its about an attitude that comes from “not” thinking you’re smarter than others, and not acting like it.

Like Columbo

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“I never think my opinion is the only one and that those that disagree with me must be idiots (or often worse).

Especially in matters of religion.”

Because you’re line of questioning and statements show contempt for what really is just an element everyone must have in their life.
Some choose different forms of faith and belief in non tangible aspects to get them thru life.
Religion being the most popular but most certainly not the dumbest.

I work with addicts and alkies.
At some point they are asked if they have found or can recognize a higher power in their life.
Some apply complex thought to this as far as creation, existence and purpose go.
Some, after months, come to me and tell me a door knob is their higher power. These are the guys that I call names.
As hostile as you are towards those with faith is as hostile as I will be with you.
True, there are dangerous radical zealots out there. But the majority of people of faith are decent people who are the most charitable altruistic on the planet and have served a humongous part in bettering life for humanity.
If religion bugs you so much go after the ones killing Americans in the name of religion.
Islam.
And leave Americas Christians alone

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Me Says:
August 30th, 2011 at 10:05 am

Your basic premise that education and intelligence are related is flawed. Certainly when one looks at the state of nation’s schools and universities.

and

Andy–It’s the first 6 years of a child’s life
See Piaget.

The fact that you guys are trying to cite academic scholarship to support your warped anti-education arguments is not only hilarious but also also self-negating.

FWIW, Jean Piaget was what the advocates of stupidity here id would call an “egghead”, stuffed full of theories and book-smarts about so-called “day care centers”. Aside from being extremely well educated himself, he was Director of the International Bureau of Education for 40 years who saw education as the salvation for the world.

Oh, and Faye, I know you’re bashing the “MSM” when you say they’re obsessed with Perry being a blockhead, but may I remind you this story was on Fox, which okay, is as MSM as they get, but somehow people on this site don’t seem to understand that.

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buzzbee Says:
August 30th, 2011 at 11:25 am

I have never been hostile to religion, I merely think there should always be a clear separation of church and state.

I make all decisions based on math, analysis and science, many would say to a fault, so that is what I want in a leader.

Others feel differently, that is there choice. It does not make them stupid, they simply look for different attributes.

You obviously approach this as more of a fist fight. I don’t see this as competitive.

I don’t need you to believe as I do.

As I have often stated on this site, is the preference to have eight people all saying, “You’re right, no, you’re right”? Sounds boring to me.

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Faye Says:
August 30th, 2011 at 11:36 am

ME?
Read A Slobbering Love Affair by Bernie Goldberg
and see if some of your moonbatty friends can “research” Billy Ray’s grades….I personally find him to be one of the most incompetent and ignorant politicians to ever emerge.
Just because many moonbats claim BHO to be “smart”—-doesn’t make it so.

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Micky Says:
August 30th, 2011 at 11:42 am

“act that you guys are trying to cite academic scholarship to support your warped anti-education arguments is not only hilarious but also also self-negating.”

Nice try.
But Piagets theories and book smarts were not attained between birth and 6.
And, he was able to process what he studied to an answer most likely because his mother was not his sister or he was smart enough to start with.
Which is why some people succeed in the same courses that some fail.
Some are just smarter or wise enough (intelligent) to not try and bend facts to suit their agenda
Whats so freekin hard about you understanding the difference between data input and the ability to process it ?
You are the perfect example of this idiocy in your inability to process and discern the difference.
You may have plenty of certification and hours behind books and instruction but still dont get it.
Or, are stupid enough to try and argue these simple facts.
Seriously, you of all people have no business advocating for intelligence when you expect folks to even begin considering or believing some of the crap you expect us to believe and adhering to an ideology thats spawned from the foundation of insanity, repetition expecting diversity.

You’re such a loser and really bad at the mental gymnastics thing

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Micky Says:
August 30th, 2011 at 12:15 pm

“I make all decisions based on math, analysis and science, many would say to a fault, so that is what I want in a leader.”

Chew on this.

As much as I want the two sperate and believe they should be it doesnt change the fact that men of Christian morals and ethics saw that their own theologies should not be a part of governmental process.
But its an inescapable paradox as it was a Christian majority that dictated that majority be removed from the process and that much of our Constitution and Bill Of Rights are based on The Ten Commandments.
Many people make decisions based on ethics and morals derived of their religion and have nothing to do with what you base you decisions on.
Basic right from wrong does not need math analysis and science to prevail and quite frankly sounds pretty stiff and inhumane.

Seeing as how liberals are famous for basing decision on emotion I’m going to give you a pass on this one.
Whenever science and logic fail the first thing they do is issue the fear mongering of global warming killing all the kids or calling people racist or bashing Christians, which is just as dumb as a Christian trying to convince and Atheist God exists and an Atheist attempting convincing a Christian God doesnt exist.
And, theres really nothing wrong with using emotion to base decisions on certain issues, or “the heart” as one might say.
Its just a question of whos genuine and if theres sinister ulterior motives or not.

I’m no big fan of the Christian politician who thinks dinosaurs and humans roamed the earth together.
I understand that science dictates this to be false and if we end up with a leader who bases his decision on such misgivings we deserve what we get as much as if we elect one who uses inconclusive science to cram a bunch of green crap down our throats out of his belief regardless of the science.
The world is full of people who have non substantial beliefs and superstitions based on the dumbest things but many of them arent dumb ebough to bring it to the office.
I have no scientific proof that there is a God.
But you have non that says there isnt either.
I do however believe there is a supreme being or constructive power that gives us purpose whos being is totally past anything the human minds architecture can fathom.
I chose to give these people who believe as I do more credit than you for even humbling themselves to that understanding.
So, stop being so hostile to them because they dont think like you.
Its much easier for me to understand everyone else than it is to get everyone to understand me.
That doesnt mean I’m not a proponent for individual thought.

Bottom line is this.
In my 56 years I’ve noticed Christian people, as much hypocrisy as there is whithin the ranks and teachings, to still be the most honest, humble, forgiving and decent of all demographics.
So I will defend them even though I who despise organized religion see it as always being a problem.
I’m glad were surrounded by people of faith who get beat up on constantly and refrain from being the ass holes the rightfully at times deserve to be